Melissa Gallagher, JP Morgan’s EMEA head of compliance, on future-proofing the back office amidst technological and regulatory change

2025-03-25

Today’s guest outlines how the compliance function, and those working within it, can best navigate today’s rapidly changing technological and regulatory environment. She discusses the industry's response to increasing regulatory scrutiny around surveillance as well as on bankers’ non-financial misconduct. And she explains why in amongst all the change it is critical that compliance officers do not to lose sight of the “foundational building blocks” of their role. Melissa Gallagher ...

Today’s guest outlines how the compliance function, and those working within it, can best navigate today’s rapidly changing technological and regulatory environment.

She discusses the industry's response to increasing regulatory scrutiny around surveillance as well as on bankers’ non-financial misconduct.

And she explains why in amongst all the change it is critical that compliance officers do not to lose sight of the “foundational building blocks” of their role.

Melissa Gallagher has spent 30 years working in various compliance roles most recently at large US banks in London. With a background in sales and trading compliance, she has run the compliance and operational risk function in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for US banking giant JP Morgan since 2019.

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